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April 05, 2004
MyBPML.org
SOURCE: John Hamilton, Senior Architect, Process Infrastructure, Computer Sciences Corporation \ EXCERPT: So, in my opinion, if and when a public domain standard becomes supported by the open source community, it will be unbeatable...
Of course, you’ve guessed I’m talking about the present state and future prospects for BPML. I like it because it has a formal basis in calculus. I like it because it is complete and in the public domain. I’ll like it even more when it is adopted by the open source community...
March 29, 2004
Why BPML?
SOURCE: John Hamilton, Senior Architect, Process Infrastructure, Computer Sciences Corporation \
EXCERPT: If you want to store anything-- data, process diagrams, contacts, you’ve got to take it out and exercise it regularly-- “use it or lose it”. Anything that is not in regular use pretty soon becomes unusable.
The “use it or lose it” rule applies here. Process documentation that can be ignored, will be ignored, by people wishing to get on with their work. What I wanted was some kind of process documentation that actually interacted with the real world. It appeared the other day: a formal language that was complete and sufficiently unambiguous as to be executable. This meets the “use it” criterion. If the documentation not only can be used, but has to be used, then it will become and will remain correct. A closed loop feedback mechanism applies here. If a tool or method is necessary for real work, then it will be maintained in good condition: Carpenters keep their chisels sharp. In real life, most people do not use documentation and do not care if it is wrong. They use tools and get mad as hell if they don’t work.
September 03, 2003
NETWORK EFFECT’ ACCELERATING CHANGES IN BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY
The network effect will spur a shift to Web Services as a dominant application deployment method, as well as a transformation of existing enterprise applications. The focus on Web Services will also see a rise in Web Service security and management to address gaps in the open Web Services architecture. As technology's increasing awareness of business processes continues, it allows businesses to tie third parties into their operations directly over the network. Such networked business structures allow companies to shift tasks such as application and infrastructure management to an outside service provider.
July 01, 2003
The Third Wave - Separating the Pretenders from the Contenders
SOURCE: Darwin Magazine \ ABSTRACT: As the momentum gains, so does the confusion. BPM systems are defined in as many ways as there are vendors to ask for definitions. The technologies marketed under the BPM moniker vary greatly in scope and functionality, adding to the market confusion. One major consulting firm's analysis of the space has concluded that there are as many differences between BPM technologies as there are similarities. What is going on?
July 01, 2003
BPM and MDA: Competitors,
Alternatives or Complementary
SOURCE: Business Process Trends \ ABSTRACT: Are BPM and MDA competitors, alternatives or do they offer complementary capabilities? I use this opportunity to explain BPM by contrasting it with traditional
software systems.
June 01, 2003
BPM 2.0: Building Processes Without Programmers
SOURCE: Transform Magazine \ ABSTRACT: Last year's business process management (BPM) offerings plunged process designers into a thicket of Java code and lacked effective collaboration among process designers with line-of-business knowledge, integration expertise and programming skills. This year's BPM offerings are greatly improved, as vendors give business users hands-on tools to build processes using out-of-the-box software.
April 01, 2003
The Third Wave - Coordination, Coordination, Coordination
SOURCE: Darwin Magazine \ ABSTRACT: Collaborative and transactional business processes don't have a chance
if they're not coordinated.
April 01, 2003
Where Will All This Lead?
A future with business process outsourcing might just lead to Home Depot.
Need a new house to go with those shelves today?
The traditional distinctions between outsourcing, value-chain integration and process management are blurring. Where once companies outsourced well-defined, bounded, functional business domains (and the associated stovepipe IT applications), process management lets companies slice and dice end-to-end processes they choose to outsource in different ways and with finer granularity. Outsourcing is becoming more collaborative, and value-chain integration is growing more dependent on business process management.
January 20, 2003
BPM’s Third Wave: Build To Adapt, Not Just To Last
SOURCE: eBizQ.net \ ABSTRACT: BPM is not just another form of automation, a new killer-app or a fashionable new management theory. It's all about discovering what your company does by explicitly defining and digitizing its business processes, and then managing the lifecycle of improvement and optimization in a way that translates directly to live operations.
December 12, 2002
BPML Promises Business Revolution
SOURCE: IT Week \ ABSTRACT: BPML will do to processes what spreadsheets did to data: let companies treat them as definable objects that can be changed or linked to other processes with a simple point and click.
December 01, 2002
Business Process Management: The Next Fifty Years
SOURCE: Darwin Magazine \ ABSTRACT: Companies that want to increase their effectiveness in this new way of competing must bite the bullet and take on the challenge of making process, not data, not the application, the basic unit of computer-based automation and support. They must shift their focus from systems of record to systems of process. In short, DATA processing must give way to PROCESS processing.
November 27, 2002
Business Process Management Language: Automating Business Relationships
SOURCE: EAI Journal \ ABSTRACT: BPM represents a paradigm shift in its separation of the logical description of a process from its implementation details. Through this technique, BPM can be modeled end-to-end, meaning that all component transactions that are required to interoperate to provide business value can be viewed as part of a single process. While any of the steps of this process run, the execution of can be monitored within the context of the whole business process.
November 25, 2002
A New Way of Collaborating: Standards are being developed with which companies will create business processes.
SOURCE:InformationWeek \ ABSTRACT: Standards bodies and software vendors are putting the final touches on a number of Web-services specifications that could revolutionize the way companies collaborate. The standards are related to XML, a language used by businesses to model enterprise data that's become an instrumental part of Web Services, While the technology that underlies each of the new specs marks up data similarly to XML, its capabilities go far beyond that of XML's.
November 01, 2002
Three Promises of BPM: Agility, Flexibility, Visibility
SOURCE: Transform Magazine \ ABSTRACT: Behind every company's brand — the facade it promotes to customers — increasingly stands an extended enterprise, a dynamic value chain of suppliers and business partners interconnected over the Internet. This change is once again focusing CEO attention on business process management (BPM), but with a difference from the workflow and reengineering efforts of the 1990s.
October 01, 2002
Web Services Wars Take Artistic Turn
SOURCE: XML & Web Services Magazine \ ABSTRACT: Choreography or orchestration? Industry leaders duke it out over standards for process assembly and management
September 01, 2002
What does business process management mean for the IT industry?
SOURCE: Knowledge Management World \ ABSTRACT: Why is business process management (BPM) hot? Whatever your organizational structure, be it in manufacturing, services or retail, your operation is underpinned by processes--the fundamental ways of doing things that are either efficient and appropriate, or, more often, outdated and arthritic. There are, of course, profound cultural reasons why organizations find it hard to kill redundant processes or even to rejuvenate them. But there are also IT reasons why process change is hard. The logic of business process tends to get hard-wired into highly expensive IT systems, which are complex and act as a brake to change. The great twenty-first century irony is that the more we automate business, the harder it seems to be to react quickly to operational change.
July 01, 2002
BPM Software Slows the Paper Chase
SOURCE: WorkSpan \ ABSTACT: Automating administrative processes frees up HR professionals to function at a more strategic level.
December 17, 2001
Critical Success Factors in a Business Process Integration Initiative
SOURCE: eBizQ.net \ ABSTRACT: Business process integration, or BPI, is the most strategic and thorough approach to application integration. But its also a major undertaking. How should an organization go about structuring its BPI initiative? William Ulrich of Tactical Strategy Group describes the key strategic and technical requirements for a successful project.
December 14, 2001
IBM connects its software layers
SOURCE: InfoWorld \
ABSTRACT: IBM is embarking on a technical crusade to tie up key elements of its software and drive its users closer to the Holy Grail: business process integration and common access to structured and unstructured data.
December 13, 2001
What's BPM? Marketing noise clouds strategic mission
SOURCE: Line 56 \ ABSTRACT: A good overview and explanation of BPM providing background on its evolution, examples of its use, and insight on the future.
November 27, 2001
Ten Pillars of BPM
SOURCE: EAI Journal (downloadable PDF) \ ABSTRACT: Hurwitz Group has identified 10 elements that must be at the core of a strong BPM solution. Enterprises should look for them when choosing a solution.
November 20, 2001
Business Process Management Hurdles to Clear
SOURCE: Gartner Group \ ABSTRACT: Business process management is here, but hurdles abound: the pricing models are wild; return-on-investment analysis is shortsighted; and, if you cannot organize for application integration, forget BPM success.
November 01, 2001
Making Business Processes Manageable
E-business turned out to be harder than anyone thought. One reason was that businesses still had trouble managing business processes. That’s about to change.
October 29, 2001
In Process: The Changing Role of Business Process Management in Today's Economy
When all is said and done, the differentiator in any business is speed of building and executing processes.
October 08, 2001
Vendors Jumping on the BPM Bandwagon
The current economic downturn is causing a general retrenchment of e-business strategies and deployments. As the vendors begin releasing their next generation of e-business integration solutions, it looks like business process management (BPM) is becoming the holy grail of e-business integration.
September 09, 2001
Model Behaviour
Organisations are using business process modelling tools to direct the flow of data between new and existing systems. By Eleanor Turton-Hill.
July 12, 2001
The Logical Conclusion
Business process management systems promise to separate process logic from underlying applications. What are the benefits - and how realistic - is this radical notion?
May 02, 2001
End to End
Appeared in the May 2001 edition of Infoconomy's Collaborative Commerce Business Briefing
April 10, 2001
Back-Office Talk
A draft specification for a new language that makes business processes visible to one another over the Internet is being developed into what 88 companies hope will be an Internet standard.
March 12, 2001
No more Speaking in Code
An IT industry group has released specifications aimed at allowing business process-specific code in applications to be removed, shared and analyzed in much the same way data can be isolated from application logic
March 09, 2001
Consortium releases new business process language
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Looking to separate business processes from the applications in which they're imbedded, a technology industry consortium yesterday released the Business Process Modeling Language (BPML) specification.
March 07, 2001
Internet Summit: Business-process model ready for release
The Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI), a group formed in August to define a standard way to model business processes, is prepared to release the first draft of specifications for BPML (Business Process Modeling Language), an XML schema that is the first step toward the group's goal.
March 07, 2001
XML business-process model ready for release
The Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI), a group recently formed to define a standard way to model business processes, is prepared to release the first draft of specs for BPML (Business Process Modeling Language), an XML (extensible markup language) schema that is the first step toward the group's goal.
March 07, 2001
Business-process model ready for release
The Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI), a group formed in August to define a standard way to model business processes, is prepared to release the first draft of specifications for BPML (Business Process Modeling Language), an XML (extensible markup language) schema that is the first step toward the group's goal.
February 26, 2001
IBM sews up the middle
IBM is counting on its partners to bolster the fortunes of its key messaging middleware and application offerings, and will strengthen these connections with a series of agreements and initiatives to come at the PartnerWorld gathering in Atlanta this week.
November 22, 2000
BPMI.org Gets New Members
25 companies join initiative. The newcomers are Concentus Technology, Covasoft, ECtone, Epicentric, Evidian, Exterprise, FileNET Corp., Fujitsu Software, Genient, Jamcracker, Lombardi Software, MEGA International, Merant, Metaserver, NextSet, Nortel Networks, Novo, OSM, ProActivity, PureEdge, Reef, Rycon Technologies, Staffware, Sybase and TechSpan.
September 21, 2000
Business Process Management Initiative gathers momentum
Last month a new talking shop was created with the aim of creating a standard for managing business processes. The group, known as the Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI), was created by Intalio with support from 15 other interested parties – including Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, CSC, Blaze Software and other organisations interested in the development of e-business solutions.
September 11, 2000
BPMI.org Welcomes New Members
10 firms join initiative: Attunity Ltd., bTrade.com, BusinessThreads Inc., CASEwise, Enterworks Inc., eXcelon Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Mercator Software Inc., Sterling Commerce Inc., and Sunguard Business Integration.
August 14, 2000
XMLFund puts its mouth where its money is
In an unusual stratagem for a venture capital fund, Bellevue-based XMLFund is backing a new standards initiative to make XML the lingua franca of doing business on the Internet.
August 11, 2000
Business-process XML schema planned
The Business Process Management
Initiative (BPMI) was formed this week by 16 companies to define XML-based standards for the management of business processes that span heterogeneous applications, corporate departments, and business partners.
August 10, 2000
Business Process Management Initiative: The Pebbles Are Voting
What is the recently announced Business Process Management Initiative and what is Giga's opinion of it?
August 08, 2000
BPMI Organization Formed
BPMI Organization Formed Focusing on business process management standards.
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